EROAD announces next-generation platform
EROAD has announced the release of its world-leading, second-generation in-vehicle hardware, Ehubo2, which supports multiple applications on a single device. The first application for the...
Category : Contractor
Early adoption key to profitability for Schick Construction
Being early adopters of technology including machine control and GPS-based survey systems is the best way to overcome the contracting industry’s inherent skill shortage says...
Binding the metal with a simple solution
In an effort to reduce maintenance costs and extend road budgets, councils and road contractors are turning to a technologically-advanced binding agent called PolyCom Stabilising...
Austin Asphalt fixes it in the field with FIELDFIX
Smart software from Fieldfix gets the right information to the right people at Austin Asphalt from anywhere, anytime. Not only does this enable them to...
3D scanning technology in the palm of your hand
With applications as diverse as construction, industrial production, engineering and crime scene forensics, the FARO Freestyle 3D handheld scanner shifts scanning technology in an exciting...
Waikato Expressway’s Karapiro Gully bridge- Simple yet Unique
Alan Titchall visits the construction site of the highest bridge and longest bridge built on the new Waikato Expressway near Cambridge, and the first in...
The canal that wouldn’t die- Corinth
The Suez and Panama canals are celebrated as two of history’s most inspirational feats of engineering. But you could argue that for sheer dogged belief...
Heritage NZ Report: A historic road and landing rediscovered
A 75-metre section of what is believed to be part of Northland’s oldest road, along with the remains of an old river landing, were recently...
Transport Agency project: the Waikato Expressway
Construction work on the $2.1 billion, 102 kilometre-long Waikato Expressway is, according to the NZ Transport Agency, ramping up and moving along and is pretty...
When Elijah stepped up
Jane Warwick talks with young Waikato contractor Elijah Graham about his sudden take-over of his father’s business at the age of 19, home, family and...